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02/06/2011

Brunch II

It had been a while since my boyfriend and I last hosted brunch, so we put together another one this weekend. I had some recipes that I wanted to try and my boyfriend had been wanting to re-create a brunch dish that we had eaten at Medina Cafe in Vancouver.

Plus, brunch is awesome.. so there's always that reason.

I made some savory goat cheese and green onion mini muffins. So easy to make and slightly addictive. It's a simple muffin recipe with a blob of melting goat cheese in it which makes them savory, tangy, and a little bit sweet at the same time.

I also baked a lemon scented pull-apart coffee cake (otherwise known as delicious bread of awesome deliciousness). A sweet yeast dough is cut and spread with butter and lemon sugar so that after it bakes you can peel off the slices without having to cut the loaf.

EDIT: I'll have the bread recipe post up by Wednesday (promise) Recipe here

While it's still warm from the oven the coffee cake/bread get slathered with lemon cream cheese icing which melts into all the nooks and crannies and makes the whole thing soft and tangy and sweet.

For the main dish we roasted baby potatoes that had been tossed with rosemary, garlic, chili powder and olive oil. We had picked up some apple chicken sausages from Spolumbo's which we baked in the oven at the same time as the potatoes.

The mixture was then topped with a couple of fried eggs and sent out to our hungry guests (who had been munching on the little muffins).

Generally, when planning a menu it's a bad idea to compose it entirely out of recipes and dishes that you've never made before. However, we were having the brunch specifically to try new recipes so I was glad that everything turned out so well. Oooh, risky menu planning.. we're living on the edge over here.

It was baby Eden's first visit to our house, she was definitely the star attraction of the brunch...

...a fact which deeply disturbed Wellington. He has clearly grown used to being the prancy-pawed prince around here.

After all the food was eaten (literally, we managed to eat the entire coffee cake and all the muffins) there was champagne and freshly squeezed orange juice followed by more coffee and tea.

And then once every one had left it was followed by food induced comas.. otherwise known as naps.

hi - i just found this - and i would LOVE if you could send me the recipie for that lemon pull apart bread?!?! - my email is "erikaf@glen.com" - i would literally DIE to make this - i really hope this finds you and you wouldn't mind to share - THANKS SOOOOO MUCH!!!!!!!

I can't even begin to tell you how friggin' delicious everything looks. I swear to god I'm about to pass out from craving overkill! Especially those muffins! And you just gave me an idea for roasting potatoes, I can go on and on. :)

Hi! I stumbled across your blog when someone from pinterest pinned your picture of your pull-apart coffee cake it to their pinboard and just had to see if I could get the recipe! I was wondering if you could send me the recipe to your Lemon pull-apart coffee cake. My email address is anitaarias@att.net . Thank you so much.

Oh my fricking God. I am drooling all over myself here with the rest of your fans!.
I too would love to get the recipe for the muffins( I am the muffin queen with my own personal muffin top) and the pull apart lemon bread. Another thing I eat and crave on a daily basis is lemons in any form.
If I don't get these recipes soon I think I might obsess until I do!
Put me out of my misery and into some muffin pleasure!! :-D

the only think keeping me from making any of these deeeelicious items is that my oven is broken. I promise, cross my heart and hope to pass into a coma of solidarity, to try all of these items. i am in need of the inspiration and all of this does it for me.
thank you for sharing!
oh and it was the lemon bread that sucked me in through pinterest ... i doubt i shall ever leave now.
xoxo.w.